Combined match-safe



(No Model.)

H. BRANDT. COMBINED MATCH SAFE, PINGUSHION, AND TRAP. No. 489,467. Patented 0011.28, 1890.

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HENRY BRANDT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINED MATCH-SAFE,

PINCUSHION, AND TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,467, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed May 2'7, 1890. Serial No. 353,345. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, HENRY BRANDT, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Match-Safe, Pincushion, and Trap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a device adapted for a match-safe, pincushion, andtrap, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and compact structure capable of effective use for any of the purposes above specified.

The invention will first be described, and

I then will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im provement with the top cover carrying the pincushion opened a little way, the cushion being partly broken out at one corner. Fig. 2 is a front perspective view of the matchiray removed from the main box or casing of the device. Fig. 3 is a detail rear perspective View of one corner of the box with the pincushion slid forward from its normal position. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View of the device when adjusted for use as a mouse-trapg and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device in horizontal section below the match-tray and with the bottom closed and the trap bait-hook unset, as when out of use.

My improved combined match-safe, pincushion, and trap is made with an outer sheet-metal box or casing A, having a top or lid a, which is hinged along the rear side of the box, and at opposite ends is provided with inturned lips o. a, providing under them grooves or slideways, which receive the bot tom or base plate I? of a pincushion B, which may be made of any suitable materials adapting it to receive pins, needles, or other articles commonly held in a cushion of this char= actor. The rear ends of the cover-lips a are pressed down at a as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, to form rear stops to the sliding removable pincushion. The front edge of the cover a is preferably turned downward and inward at a to stiffen it and also to form The main box or casin A is rovided at one end with corner brackets a a and at the other end with a cross bar or shelf a, which sustain within the box a removable tray 0, having a transverse partition 0, dividing it into two compartments 0 0 the former for good matches and the latter for burned or used matches, the good matches being shown in the tray in Fig. 1 of the drawings. At its front and upper edge the tray 0 has a downbent lip c and at its lower edge are provided a series-preferably four-of hook-lips c, which may be pressed out of the metal of the front of the tray. The lips 0 0 provide between them a guide or slideway, into which is slipped endwise a strip D of sand-paper or other rough material, on which to light the matches when the tray is in the box or casing A by passing their ignitable ends through a slot E in the casingfront and then rubbing them onto or along the sandpaper D, which then lies behind the slot. This slot has a right-angular portion 6, which extends around at the end of the box toward which the matches are drawn in igniting them. Consequently this end of the slot lies behind or back of the front of the tray or the sandpaper D thereon and cannot offer obstruction to the end of the match as it is drawn clear across the sandpaper and off of the front of the tray. Hence the matches will not be broken in igniting them, as they would be did the end of the slot E toward which they are drawn stand at the front of the box or casing.

Figs. at and 5 of the drawings show that the bottom of of the box or casing A is hinged to it by pins or pivots a a little distance from one end at which is arranged a spiral spring F, which normally closes the bottom a against stop lips or flanges a a on the main casing, but allows the bottom to be conveniently opened downward by upward pressure on the extremity of its hinged end. The vertical portion or wall of the end bracket or support a of the match-tray, or it may be the inbent end wall of the casing A, which may also form the shelf a", is provided with a catch lip or detent a, which is adapted to be engaged by a lip or flange g on the heel of a bait-hook G,

which is pivoted by a pin 9 to the extremity of the hinged end of the bottom a of the easing A and has a hooked end g to receive and hold the bait.

When the device is to be set as a trap, the toppincushion B will be slid forward off the lid aof the main box or casing A and the matchtray C will be removed from the casing, and after the box-bottom is opened downward against the tension or torsional strain of the spring F and the lip g of the baited hook is set lightly'upon the casing-catch a to hold the bottom open the casing, with its top a latched or closed. will be set on the floor or on a shelf, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. When a mouse walks up the bottom a and nibbles the bait on the hook G, the hook-lip g will be tripped from its detent 0, and the spring F then will instantly close the bottom as the box or casing falls flat, and the mouse or animal will be caught in the trap. As the pincushion B is removed from the casing-top the casing, with'the mouse in it, may be immersed in water to drown the animal without damaging the cushion, and after use of the device as a trap the match-tray C may again be put into the casing, and the cushion B will be again slipped into the guides at on the casing top or lid, and the device is again ready for its most ordinary uses as a match-safe and pincushion, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 7 V 1. A combined match safe, pincushion, and trap, comprising a box or casing. having a lid and a hinged bottom, a removable matchtray held in the box, a removable pincushion held to the box-lid, and a bait-hook held to the box-bottom and adapted to a setting stud or lip on the box, substantially as described.

2. A combined match-safe,pincushion, and trap, comprising a box or casing having a hinged lid and a hinged bottom, a spring normally closing the bottom, a removable match-tray held in the box, a removable pincushion on the box-lid, and a bait-hook held to the bottom and adapted to a setting stud or lip on the box, substantially as described.

3. Acombined match-safe, pincushion, and trap, comprising a box or casing having a hinged lid a, provided with end lips a a, and also having a spring-closed bottom a a removable pincushion B, having a base-plate b, retained by the lid-lips a, a removable matchtray 0, held in the box and having two oom-' partments and a front wall provided with a sand-paper or roughened surface D, said box having a slot exposing said roughened surface, and a bait-hook G, held to the hinged end of the bottom a and adapted to a setting lug or lip on the box or casing, substantially as described;

4. In a match-safe, the main box or casing provided with a slot extending mainly along one side and partly on an adjacent side or end, toward which matches are drawn in ignitin g them on a roughened surface sustained within the box substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a box or casing, of a match-receptacle therein provided with a roughened surface on which to ignite matches, said box or casing provided with a slot exposing said roughened surface and having its end toward which the matches are drawn set back of or behind said surface, substantially HENRY BRANDT. Witnesses:

HENRY L. GOODWIN, EDGAR TATE. 

